9/20/2005
Crikey
I got a rather rude shock today walking back to the office after lunch. As I turned in the driveway and started to walk down, I was confronted with a huge swarm of bees buzzing around the main entrance to the car park. They were thick, just buzzing around in a huge sphere. I'm scared of snakes and spiders, I don't enjoy being around them, but bees and wasps freak me out.
I've only been bitten by a spider once and that was bad enough, I only got a little rash for about a week. The little bugger was hiding under a towel in the bathroom and I sort of rubbed him on my stomach which wasn't appreciated. Spiders are fairly predictable. Ants don't bother me at all.
Snakes you can just stomp on the ground (from a safe distance) and they'll move on. I've done it heaps of times before as a young'un wandering around the bush in Tassie. But bees & wasps move in a totally unpredictable fashion, if there's one about you never know if they'll try to come over and check you out just as you make some sort of movement that could be seen as threatening. This is just too much for my fragile little nerves (hehe) and I have to get away as quickly as possible.
It's a shame they had to introduce all this European crap to Australia. Apparently the native bee population is much less aggressive and bees or wasps.
On a sort of related note, where I used to live growing up in Tassie they introduced these huge bumble bees that used to grow to the size of the end of my thumb. Farking huge. Scare the christ out of me.
I've only been bitten by a spider once and that was bad enough, I only got a little rash for about a week. The little bugger was hiding under a towel in the bathroom and I sort of rubbed him on my stomach which wasn't appreciated. Spiders are fairly predictable. Ants don't bother me at all.
Snakes you can just stomp on the ground (from a safe distance) and they'll move on. I've done it heaps of times before as a young'un wandering around the bush in Tassie. But bees & wasps move in a totally unpredictable fashion, if there's one about you never know if they'll try to come over and check you out just as you make some sort of movement that could be seen as threatening. This is just too much for my fragile little nerves (hehe) and I have to get away as quickly as possible.
It's a shame they had to introduce all this European crap to Australia. Apparently the native bee population is much less aggressive and bees or wasps.
On a sort of related note, where I used to live growing up in Tassie they introduced these huge bumble bees that used to grow to the size of the end of my thumb. Farking huge. Scare the christ out of me.
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